I wonder what the exact times of the following words are: morning, noon, afternoon, evening, night, mid-night. What's the difference between at night and in the night?

Should I refer to 16:00 o'clock as afternoon or as evening? In winter, when the days are short, and it becomes dark already at this time already in many countries, and therefore it is not clear t...

2016年12月6日 · The easiest way to explain, I guess, would be to compare in the evening -> time of day vs on the evenings -> date. NB: there is no "s" in "in the evening", because it's a time frame not a series of dates.

We met on Sunday evening. When understood as a nameworthy chunk of time during the week vis-à-vis the week, they are thus a place in time, an identifiable spot along the way †, as it were, hence on Sunday evening.

2024年11月27日 · There is no possessive apostrophe in these phrases Tomorrow morning, tomorrow afternoon, tomorrow evening and tomorrow night they all refer to different periods of the day after “today”. Whereas the possessive apostrophe is used in: a good night' s sleep (a good night of sleep) The possessive apostrophe replaces "of" and adds an "s" several good night s ' …

Use "good evening". While it is the end of the work day, there are still things to do (drive home, eat dinner, watch TV, take a bath, ???) before going to sleep. "good night" is better when you are done doing other things for the day. If you went to a party after work, and it ended at 10PM, it would be more likely to use "good night".

2022年3月20日 · Usually we use the word "breakfast" in the morning to mean to eat something, but what word do we use to mean "afternoon breakfast" and "evening breakfast"?

2021年7月11日 · To a large extent the start of 'evening' is a matter of opinion or convention. The Oxford Dictionaries say that it 'usually' starts at 'about' 6 PM. Note the lack of a definite rule. Evening NOUN 1 The period of time at the end of the day, usually from about 6 p.m. to bedtime. it was seven o'clock in the evening Evening (Lexico) Cambridge does not provide a time: the …

2014年5月8日 · What will you do this evening? But this doesn’t necessarily mean that the book is wrong; it may be that something in the instructions excludes constructions with BE going to from consideration in this particular question.

2023年9月9日 · Which one is correct? Are both of them correct? I feel more energetic in the evening. I feel more energetic in the evenings.